GeForce 6800 and Radeon X800 XL AGP - video card comparison
GeForce 6800
Radeon X800 XL AGP
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name
NV41
R430
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2004
May 2004
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x Molex
Core clock speed
325 MHz
400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
190 million
160 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
49 Watt
Texture fill rate
3.900
6.400
Memory type
DDR
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
600 MBps
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
19.2 GB/s
32 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0b (9_2)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
Shader Model
3.0-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A